Customer Ratings & Reviews

It works well! It is a lot quieter then the old stock cooler

Great budget cpu cooler, works exactly as intended.

Works great!! Came in to get a new CPU cooling fan. They showed me what i needed and took care of me

Stay a while and listen.... So in early 2018 I bought a CyperPowerPC system from BestBuy.com picked up at my local Best Buy brick and mortar store for my son. That system was equipped with a Ryzen 5 1400. Fast Forward to 2021 and except for the case, motherboard and internal cabling, I have pretty much replaced every other component in this thing. Not that anything failed, just upgrades for better performance. So in mid 2019, I swapped out the original Ryzen 5 1400 CPU for a Ryzen 5 2600. The first gen Ryzen 1000 CPU's did not ship with a stock cooler from AMD so my assumption is that the Cooler Master branded cooler in this system used by CyberPowerPC was the equivalent of what is the Wraith Spire that is included in the Ryzen 2000 and Ryzen 3000 series mid tier CPU's. Matter of fact, I upgraded from the Ryzen 5 1400 to the Ryzen 5 2600 and re used the included Cooler Master cooler. I even bought a tube of premium Thermaltake heat sink compound from the same brick and mortal Best Buy I picked up this machine from. Since Ryzen 5 2600 and Ryzen 5 1400 are both TDP 65W CPU's I figured the same cooling solution should work and it did. Now again here in 2021, I upgraded my PC from a Ryzen 9 3900X to a Ryzen 9 5950X and I figured I would once again pass a CPU down to my son in the aforementioned PC. So the 3900X is a 105W TDP and I knew the existing Cooler Master cooler would not work. So after some research, it looks like the Hyper 212 BE is rated for 150W TDP CPU's. So I replaced the Ryzen 5 2600 with the Ryzen 3900X in his PC. I then used the Hyper 212 BE as the new cooler. So my son's CyberPowerPC from Best Buy had a rebranded Cooler Master Masterbox 5 and the motherboard they used was a MSI Bazooka B350M micro ATX board. Yep, let's put a 3900X on an entry level B350 board. So assembling the Hyper 212 BE was not bad. The biggest gripe I had was getting the plastic clips they include for their new backplate to go onto their backplate. I watched several videos of how to assemble the Hyper 212 BE on Youtube so I felt good going into this upgrade. The packed in instructions are good and well marked from a documentation perspective but the commentary and videos on Youtube made me feel more confident. Nevertheless, I struggled to get their clips onto their backplate. Also, the clips that hold the included 120mm fan onto the tower heatsink are a bit touchy. This unit comes with the fan already mounted to the tower but you have to remove it to get clearance to attach the appropriate brackets for your CPU socket to the cooler and also have adequate leverage to get a screw driver to come straight down onto the scrws that secure the cooler tower to the backplate. Mounting the backplate to the motherboard was not a problem and also attaching the tower to the backplate and screwing it down tightly was a decent experience. Unlike the stock AMD clip method that just sucks and I think requires too much pressure to mount a cooler, Once I applied my thermal compound and lined up the tower onto the backplate and started the criss cross pattern to screw this down, once it was all tightened up, it swas solid secure and mounted well. Firing up the system post upgrade, everything works well. Temps are higher than I would like but they are within stock. Again, i am running a 3900X up from a 2600 on a B350 micro ATX board. I did disable PBO in the bios and I do not have any overlclocks applied. Temps according to the MSI Command Center bounce between high 30's to mid 50s C while idling. If I use something like CPU-Z to stress the CPU, I do see that it can get up around 83C under a full 24 thread load. My son basically plays games so a full stress test does not represent a realistic work load so take this with a grain of salt. Also, I am not a professional. The fact the PC still runs after its 3rd CPU is amazing. My son probably sits on his PC too much as it is but he has not complained about anything. To him, the PC still pretty much feels like it did when it was on the 1400 CPU. Which is a good thing. Time will tell if this will fry his VRMs. Looks like there are 4 of them on ths particular board. I did see videos on Youtube of folks trying 3900X in B350 boards as a proof of concept. I think Hot Hardware said that if you shut off PBO and don't overclock, that things do get warm but stay within spec. Of course they were using the included Wraith Prism that come withthe 3900X however, I do not have one of those as my machine came with an AIO closed loop 120mm cooler so that is why I grabbed the Hyper 212 BE. Maybe the Prism would be better since it is a downward cooler. Again time will tell. Anyway, this thing is really nice looking when mounted in his PC case. Sorry to not include a picture. I would recommend this unit. Overall, it seems good quality. Hopefully, I did not do my son a dis service and bite off more than his motherboard can handle.

Installing was very easy just follow instructions. Be warned however, if you have a MATX case or even an ATX that is not very wide, this may not fit. The first PC I was going to install on was too narrow and I ended up with an AIO liquid cooler. A little while later I was able to install on another PC I built for a "budget build" in a prior used NZXT 510. It did fit nicely in here without contact. I cannot in good nature blame Cooler Master it was something I should have checked myself first. On the build it does work fantastic and easily cools the 10th Gen Intel 5 CPU it is mounted to.

Took about 30min from power down to power up, so not too complicated. Comes with all the brackets and hardware to fit practically any board and CPU. Included thermal paste, which was nice. I installed this on my Ryzen 5 3600 which had been running at 170° idle and 201°+ under benchmark loads. With this new cooler, I'm seeing 135° idle and 171° under benchmark loads. So a dramatic improvement. Is louder than the stock AMD Stealth cooler, but that goes with the territory for it's cooling capacity. I'm now comfortably able to overclock to my heart's desire. :)

Why need an aio when you have this. This does a great job cooling and is very quiet

my cousin needed a new cooler fast so i went to BestBuy and bought him this one. I really like this cooler its the second one i bought i have one for my pc and it works great.

Isnt anything fancy, but it gets the job done. Not hard at all to install, nice good cooler

I have an i7 6700 and already had good airflow in my Fractal Meshify C case (cooler fits easily in this case), but I had a gift card so I thought I'd giver this thing a shot. It's much quieter, especially when the PC turns on, no obnoxious fan spin up noise. The fan clips are a little annoying to use and the instructions leave a little bit to be desired, but overall it's a great value. As of my review, the YouTube channel "Gear Seekers" has both AMD and Intel installation videos. Temps from Intel's tuning utility during CPU stress test/gaming: Stock Intel Cooler: 36C min, 73C max, 63C average under load Hyper 212 Black: 27C min, 51C max, 43C average under load

Works as expected. Keeps a 96 watt CPU cool at 4.8 GHz. Installation was easy. It is too tall for smaller towers. Very quiet and well balanced.

I’m oficially done with liquid coolers. In the 4 years I’ve owned my PC I’ve had 3 of them fail. Either the pump goes or some of the liquid evaporates and my PC ends up shutting down due to high CPU temperatures. This air cooler works great and actually opens up the airflow in my system since theres no radiator in front of the case fans. My CPU is now running at a max temp of 40C. This is the best cooler for the vast majority of users! You may need something better only if you’re an extreme over clocker.

Exellent choice for my situation. It was a bit of a challenge to install but it is now working as expected. My intel i7-10700 CPU is now running at lease 20 degrees C cooler when running MSFS 2024.

Very good quality works perfect gets really low temps

This CPU cooling fan does the trick but it was a lot harder to mount to the motherboard than necessary. Also, instructions and supplies were not the best. Outside of that, once you get it on- works like a champ.

Easy install and works great. Directions were too Ikea like for me. Otherwise, 5 stars. Replaced a liquid cooled setup ( another brand ) that failed at 2 years. Temps immediately acceptable after install.

Great looking cooler, keeps my CPU very cool, easy install to switch to AMD, the fan is super quiet I barely hear it during 100% load. Great price.

This cooler is cheap and effective, and works great if you need to save money somewhere when buying a high end gaming computer. The clips that hold the fan to the radiator can be a bit finicky to deal with, but installation was not that difficult.

Easy to set up The clips were a little bit weird to put on at first but i quickly figured it out soon after, Fan is quiet and keeps temps very reasonable (45-55 idling/ browsing or working, 60-65 on more stressful tasks like gaming)

gold standard for affordable CPU cooling. Cant be the price to performance